Yellowstone County

Yellowstone County has avoided a courthouse strike over contract language that the local union said left it out of pay discussions.

The second-term Republican cited the difficulties of balancing student and legislative life, as well as "significant backlash" from members of her caucus.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte was in Billings Wednesday to discuss public safety and his budget proposals with law enforcement officials from around Yellowstone County.

Representatives from Yellowstone County, Billings and Laurel signed a memorandum of understanding last month to establish a Local Governing Authority made up of council and commission members from each of the three communities.

Billings Clinic, the Rehabilitation Hospital of Montana, RiverStone Health and St. Vincent Healthcare published the county’s sixth community needs assessment since 2005 on Wednesday.

RiverStone Health and the state health department say an elderly, unvaccinated man died at a Billings hospital over Thanksgiving weekend.

Environmental organizations and residents near a planned natural gas plant in Laurel are fighting to stop its construction even as it proceeds.

Preliminary results show recreational marijuana will stay in Yellowstone County.

A steady stream of people flowed through the doors of the Montana Pavillion in Metra Park to drop off ballots Tuesday morning a few hours after polls opened for Montana’s primary election.

Less than six months since legal recreational marijuana sales began in Montana, voters in Yellowstone County are being asked whether to stop them. A question on Tuesday’s ballot could essentially reverse a 2020 vote and block the recreational industry in Yellowstone county entirely — an industry supporters say brings in tax dollars and jobs, while opponents say it’s bad business for Montana.